Teen sweethearts 'who went out to the gym' found beaten to death in homeless camp

Paloma Gallardo, 16, and Josue Salvatierra, 14, from Argentina, were recovered beaten to decease successful wasteland having gone retired unneurotic to the gym and ne'er came home

A brace of teenage sweethearts who disappeared "during a travel to a gym" person been recovered beaten to death with a stone astatine a stateless camp, according to police.

Victims Paloma Gallardo, 16, and 14-year-old Josue Salvatierra, had vanished from their homes successful Florencio Varela, Argentina, connected January 30. Police accidental their beaten bodies were recovered 3 days aboriginal successful wasteland.

An autopsy revealed that some died from repeated convulsive blows to the caput with a stone but had not been tied up and Paloma had not been sexually assaulted, arsenic had been antecedently claimed. Police judge the mates had been ambushed and robbed and past beaten to decease by their attackers.

Their robbers are alleged to person fled with cash, two mobile phones and a backpack being carried by Josue. Paloma's heartbroken dada Omar Gallardo an evangelical pastor who gives sermons connected YouTube, identified her assemblage and aboriginal told section media: "I can't picture what had been done to my daughter's body."

Paloma and Josue, who were next-door neighbours, had grown up unneurotic and some went to the University of Forests Secondary School. They are said to person been going retired unneurotic for conscionable a mates of months earlier they were killed. At 6pm connected the time they disappeared Paloma had told her dada that she was going to bid with Josue.

Three hours later, neither had returned location and their compartment phones were dead. Paloma's mum Alicia Pita “At 9pm, Josue’s begetter came to our location to inquire astir him, due to the fact that helium knew that they had some gone to the gym together, but they ne'er came back. Paloma near with conscionable what she was wearing and a vessel of water, reasoning of returning soon. She didn’t person thing other with her due to the fact that she hadn’t planned to spell anywhere.”

She continued: “They were not looking to permission home, they did not wan to wantonness their families, it was not a youthful adventure. They were victims of horrific crime. We expected different ending, but God has different plans.”

The mum said: “They stayed successful the quadrate similar immoderate different teenage couple, they were happy, determination was nary fighting. They loved each different precise much, they were friends astatine archetypal and 2 months agone they started dating." And she added tragically: “My girl went retired to the quadrate and ne'er came back.”

Police are investigating section CCTV and location information footage to place the attackers. It is believed the 2 youngsters had stopped and were sitting unneurotic successful the disused tract erstwhile they were abruptly attacked.

Local residents person marched to the constabulary presumption asking for justness for the brace and complained that the disused tract had been acceptable connected occurrence to get escaped of evidence. “They burnt the section to get escaped of evidence. There should person been constabulary determination to sphere the site,” said 1 woman.